Last weekend of the operating season and we have 6234 with a GN boxcar at the station. Soon the SD9 will be on its way to Horicon and WSOR's paint shop for a new coat of BN green...
Paired up with a GN streamliner that is receiving some attention, the former GN X71 sits on a siding at the depot on the last operating weekend of the year for the OSCV...
CP Hudson 2816 Special meets Soo Line GP-9 number 599 approaching Osceola Depot, with the #599 engineer waving the OK, and his Ford pickup waiting to carry him home off duty.
CP 2816 alongside Soo 559 at Osceola.
CP 2816 crosses over the St. Croix River with a photo charter organized by Steve Glischinski.
"Soo Line 559" (ex-Rock Island 1223) in fresh paint at Osceola, with 4-6-0 No. 328. This unit was delivered to the Rock Island in 1951, went to the C&NW in 1981, and ended its career with the Wis... (more)
No. 328 departs Osceola with an excursion bound for Marine.
No. 328 backs down to pick up its train after dumping ashes at the Osceola, Wisconsin depot. This was the 4-6-0's last month of operation before being taken out of service.
Cut off the train at the end of the day and parked on the house track. The small ballast car in the background shares the track with the locomotive...
Soo 1003 thunders out of Osceola with 4-6-2 2719 with an excursion train bound for Marine. This event was part of "Steamfest '98"
Calling it a day... The main is cleared and another weekend is complete up on the Dresser Sub.
Sitting at the end of the day by the depot...
The Stars and Stripes flies in the window of the car originally known as the Great Northern 9021. Now it is used regularly on the O&StCV Railway for first class, dinner trains, pizza trains, movi... (more)
At the end of the day I grabbed one last shot of the train from the crew parking lot...
The end of another busy day on the OSCV...